I did not order prosecution of Amaju Pinnick – Buhari

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The Presidency has refuted the story making the rounds that President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the arrest and prosecution of Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) Chairman, Amaju Pinnick.

A statement by the Presidentโ€™s spokesperson, Garba Shehu, said โ€œa press release in circulation in the last 24 hours, to the effect that President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the arrest and prosecution of Amaju Pinnick, the NFF chairman, is fake news because anyone familiar with the Presidentโ€™s unmitigated and unshakable commitment to the due processes of the law will not make such assumptions of the Presidentโ€.

According to Shehu, the position of the President that allegations of criminal nature should be addressed only by investigation and law enforcement agencies, within the framework of the law has not changed.

โ€œIt is not in the nature of President Buhari to say go and arrest that man or woman as formed the practice in the past.

โ€œRather, he allows all allegations of this nature to be addressed using the mechanism of the rule of law even as law enforcement and investigation agencies should not in any way be hampered in performing their duties.

โ€œAt the same time, nobody should drop names to seek to influence the course of those investigationsโ€.

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